A Cry in the Night by Kerry Wilkinson

Author:Kerry Wilkinson [Wilkinson, Kerry]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781786817242
Publisher: Bookouture
Published: 2020-01-14T16:00:00+00:00

Twenty-Eight

Jessica was standing in front of a whiteboard waving a pen around as if it was a lightsaber. Someone had doodled the obligatory cock in the corner of the board, with an impressive amount of detail given the state of the board marker. There was definitely perverted talent there.

It would usually take a few minutes to shut everyone up ahead of a team briefing – but it was late in the day, people were keen to get home and the night crew were getting ready for handover. There were a little over a dozen officers present, some CID, some uniform, nobody seemingly paying much attention.

‘Some great work today,’ Jessica said, giving the whole, upbeat aren’t-we-sodding-wonderful-tone those trainers banged on about at management coaching.

There was a mass muttering from the officers wanting to go home.

‘Trading Standards are on-site at Robinson’s Garage and they’ve recovered tens of thousands of pounds in counterfeit clothes and shoes from underneath the main office. I spoke to Shah earlier and he reckons it’ll turn out to be one of the city’s biggest ever hauls. If that’s not a result, I don’t know what is.’

Jessica didn’t quite expect a standing ovation but a mumbled chorus of approval would’ve been nice.

‘HQ have been called in to follow the money trail – which at least means they can do the boring stuff. It looks like Owain Robinson used a fake garage in Grimsby to funnel this money through, with the likelihood being that Evie Briers was doing his books to hide the anomalies.’

Nothing.

Someone at the back let rip with a yawn that would have dislocated the jaw of a regular man. It was like one of those snakes in a nature programme just before it started to eat something three times its own size. The constable’s mouth snapped shut and he stretched his arms high, before offering a watery-eyed apology.

‘If that wasn’t enough,’ Jessica continued, ‘Carl Brompton has been arrested for the murder of Evie Briers. We’ve got his hairs at the scene, though he says someone else was present and that it was all a big accident. He says he was paid to give her a scare – but he won’t say who coughed up the couple of hundred quid – and he won’t say who was with him in her apartment. Of course, Samuel Briers is unable to give us any sort of physical description other than that the second man was tall.’

There was a cough from the side and Jessica scowled towards the culprit, wondering if it was a genuine cough, or some sort of scoff.

‘Samuel might be blind – but he was right about one of the men dragging his leg – which is what led us to Carl Brompton in the first place. If he says the second man is tall, I’m inclined to take his word for it.’

If it was a scoff, then the officer was now silent.

‘Owain Robinson and Evie Briers are both dead – but, for the moment, there’s nothing specifically to link what happened to them.

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